Saul Bellow Quotes
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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I always train 100 percent.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
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We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
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I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
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A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.
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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.
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It's very clear that Mr. Barak's intentions all along have been to undermine the peace process, to evade it, to avoid it...
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
